Primary Mission of Youth Media Programs

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Primary mission of organizations

20% (8 of 41) empower marginalized groups

  • Freedom Youth Collective
  • Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
  • ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival
  • Supporting Our Youth
  • Centre for Spanish Speaking People
  • ME_dia Arts (from Nia Centre for the Arts)
  • The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
  • Outburst (Barbara Schilear Clinic)

27% (11 of 41) build and strengthen community

  • Charles Street Video
  • Gashanti Unity
  • Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre
  • Art Starts
  • Davenport-Perth Neighbourhood & Community Health Centre
  • Regent Park Film Festival
  • Eritrean Youth Collective
  • The People Project
  • The Young Visionaries
  • UforChange
  • Urban Arts: A Community Arts Council

7% (3 of 41) encourage creative expression

  • Lakeshore Arts-Youth programs
  • Scarborough Arts Council
  • Workman Arts Project of Ontario

7% (3 of 41) prepare youth for careers in media

  • Big Soul Production’s Inc.
  • Success Beyond Limits
  • Youth Film and Media Training Network
  • 20% (8 of 41) give youth a voice
  • Arts for Children and Youth
  • AGYU (Art Gallery of York University)
  • Expect Theatre (Urban Noise)
  • Jane and Finch TV
  • PACT (Urban Peace Program, PACTFilm)
  • St. Alban’s Boys and Girls Club
  • StArt YPA (The START Youth Presenting Art festival)
  • The Spot

12% (5 of 41) empower youth in thinking about social/global change

  • Planet in Focus
  • TakingITGlobal
  • Harmony Movement
  • Lost-Lyrics
  • No.9: Contemporary Art and the Environment

5% (2 of 41) prepare youth for negotiating a digital world

  • National Film Board of Canada – Education
  • TDSB CyberARTS Progam

2% (1 of 41) protect children from the harm caused by the media

  • The LOVE Project (Leave Out Violence Everywhere)

The top four secondary aims and purposes of youth media programs

58% (18 of 31) build and strengthen community

55% (17 of 31) to give youth a voice

48% (15 of 31) encourage creative self-expression

39% (12 of 31) empower youth in thinking about social/global change